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The Red and Blue may refer to: #A nickname used collectively for the University of Pennsylvania athletic teams. The name derives from the two school colors that are apparent on the university's coat-of-arms. This is not to be confused with the more or less "official" nickname used since the 1890s, ''the Quakers''. # A popular song of the University of Pennsylvania. ==Origins of the nickname and use of colors== There are several legends relating how these colors came to be used by the University of Pennsylvania. Whether they are fact or fiction remains unknown. # Harvard and Yale. In the early days of the university there was a race among the students of Harvard, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania. The Harvard team wore their famous crimson; Yale wore her traditional blue. When the Penn participants were asked which colors would represent their team, they replied that they would be wearing the colors of the two teams they would soon beat. The Penn athletes won the race, and Penn teams used those colors from then on. # George Washington's Clothing. It is rumored that George Washington visited the university during one of his terms as President of the United States. He is supposed to have arrived wearing a blue jacket and breeches with a red waistcoat. The next day, the students decked the university in these colors and donned red and blue themselves to honor the president. Afterward, it was decided to use these colors by the university. # Penn's and Franklin's Coats-of-Arms. A more probable story is the one that follows. When the university was creating a seal and coat-of arms it decided to use elements from both Benjamin Franklin's and William Penn's coats-of-arms—Franklin had helped to found the university, and Penn had founded the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Franklin's coat-of-arms contained the color red and Penn's featured a blue chevron. As University Archivist Francis James Dallett pointed out in 1983: "Eighteenth-century American academic institutions simply did not have colors." This leaves one inclined to relegate the above explanations to the realm of local myth. A resolution adopted by the university trustees on May 17, 1910, states: "The colors shall be red and blue,...The colors (the University of Pennsylvania ) shall conform to the present standards used by the United States Government in its flags." Thus we have a rough idea of when Penn adopted the colors red and blue, at least officially. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Red and the Blue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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